Successful treatment of Wernicke's encephalopathy in a boy with acute mixed lineage leukemia

Pediatrics International

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 271-274

  Onodera, Norio ^a   Nakahata, Toru ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Ito, Ryosuke ^a   Honda, Takashi ^a  

^a Iwate Prefectural Kitakami Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Oculomotor palsy; Vitamin Bl deficiency; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ACLARUBICIN; CYTARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; THIAMINE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HYPERALIMENTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MIXED-CELL; MALE; THIAMINE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 0031812240     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.1998.tb01926.x     Document Type: Article

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